Last Poems by A. E. Housman by A. E. Housman
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Lie down again and sleep."
"Reach me my belt and leave your prattle: Your hour is gone; But my day is the day of battle, And that comes dawning on. "They mow the field of man in season: Farewell, my fair, And, call it truth or call it treason, Farewell the vows that were." "Ay, false heart, forsake me lightly: 'Tis like the brave. They find no bed to joy in rightly Before they find the grave. "Their love is for their own undoing. And east and west They scour about the world a-wooing The bullet in their breast. "Sail away the ocean over, Oh sail away, And lie there with your leaden lover For ever and a day." |
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